Editorials, guest pieces, analyses, events and updates from the Migrants’ Rights Network, addressing key issues in migration policy, the migration/refugee sector, and the struggles for equality, justice and dignity more broadly.
Jilna Shah, the co-CEO for Migrants’ Rights Network, also expressed concern over Patel’s appointment. Jilna Shah wants the current immigration policies to be “completely and radically overhauled” “At a time where the UK’s inhumane, racist and discriminatory immigration system has never been so much in the spotlight, since Windrush, the appointment of a minister with […]
Mumbi Nkonde It’s thirty years since Kimberle Crenshaw theorised the concept of Intersectionality. On this anniversary, she has been holding discussions to reflect on the theory in practise and ask “what is intersectionality, exactly, and how do we square some of the myths with the many ways that people use intersectionality to experience life, understand
The Real Change Collective (RCC) is a newly established partnership between six organisations: Arhag Housing Association Praxis Community Projects Doctors of the World Olmec Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) RCC have created a project to support Black and ‘Minority Ethnic’ (BME) women and girls across England. RCC ensure that
On Monday 3rd June a group of supporters of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) on Violations of the Rights of Migrants presented the ‘deliberation’ of the jury which sat at the London hearing to the Prime Minister at No 10 Downing Street. The PPT is an international human rights organisation which began its work back
Fizza Qureshi has returned from leave (welcome back Fizza!). Moving forwards, Fizza and Jilna Shah (who has been covering Fizza’s leave) will be sharing the CEO role. We are excited about the breadth of experience that both bring to the role and we look forward to continuing to coordinate and strengthen the work of our
Brexit will happen by default (and law) on 29 March 2019. At the time of writing it is looking unlikely that the government’s Withdrawal Bill will be passed by parliament, and the prospect of a no deal Brexit looks an increasingly likely scenario. ‘No deal’? No deal Brexit really means that there is no law
Home Office white paper shows us where the battles for rights-based immigration policies will be fought in the future. The government’s long-awaited white paper on future immigration, finally made available in the days before Christmas, contained very few surprises. The headline idea – that a single system facilitating the recruitment of migrant workers would operate
MRN co-organising an evidence Hearing of the People’s Permanent Tribunal (PPT), specifically on the “Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples.” The London hearing, which follows similar events in Barcelona, Palermo and Paris, will take place on the 3 and 4 of November at Friends House. The PPT on Migrant
by JILNA SHAH Immigration raids, or the continuing hostile environment Despite a supposed ‘pause’ in the government’s hostile environment agenda, in the wake of the Windrush scandal, much of its discriminatory processes and procedures remain in place. The notorious Right to Work checks are still mandatory, and heavy-handed immigration raids, which have long been used
Today (Sunday 22nd July), marks the fifith anniversary of the roll out of Operation Valken (Go Home Vans) on the streets of London. The Go Home vans have come to epitomise the ‘hostile environment’. Back then in 2013, I was CEO of RAMFEL, the organisation along with Deighton Pierce Glynn, that took head on the
